More Strange Things

Summary

This week's reading started in a meeting were all the keepers or supervisors got together and decide that Thomas will spend a day in a cell for disobeying and he will become a runner. Thomas was really excited with this idea that he did not mind his punishment, after the cell he went to visit Alby who was better and had recover his memory. When Alby tried to tell Thomas about what he remembered he start killing himself and Newt saved him. Thomas also visited the girl who he recognize: she was called Teresa. The next day Thomas and Minho found a Griever during the day and they followed him until it jumped into a cliff and banished. Thomas and Minho start searching the place where the Griever disappeared, they through start throwing rocks to the cliff until one rock just disappeared.

Interesting Thoughts Throughout The Book

“Minho looked at Thomas. ‘I nominate this shank to replace me as a keeper of the Runners.’” (Dashner 158).

Really, is this serious? I cannot believe how Thomas could earn the respect from a keeping in just a night. Thomas has not been in the Glade for more than a week and he is being nominated as a keeper. He is just awesome.

“‘I’m sorry, Newt,’ he whispered. ‘Don’t know what happened. It was like… something was controlling my body. I’m sorry…’

…‘Sorries, nothing,’ Newt replied. ‘You were trying to bloody kill yourself.’ ” (Dashner 174).

How could this happened? This is the strangest place I ever knew, there is a maze, people do not have memory, there are monsters, and now there is something that control people. I do not know what else could happened to make this thing even stranger. I do like these mysterious and strange things because it makes you want to keep on reading.

Final Ideas And Conclusions

I just like this book more and more each time I read it. I like everything that happens in this story. It has lots suspense and secrets that makes you want to continue turning the page. I really like the clues the author gives. I do not know if I could ever have a right prediction but I think that someone in the glade will jump to the place where the rock disappeared to discover what it is. 

Keeps Getting Better

Summary

In the chapters that I read for this post, Thomas met with the leader of the runners called Minho and he informed that a Griever was death in the maze. Alby and Minho went in the maze to investigate but they arrive when the maze door was closing. Alby was barely walking and Minho was carrying him, in the moment the door was shutting for the night, Thomas decides to enter the maze and help them. When the doors were, closed Thomas hung Alby in a wall with vines and run from the Grievers. Minho appeared to help, both of them made four Grievers fall through a cliff, and they survived the night.

Interesting Thoughts Throughout The Book

“‘I found a dead one.’

‘Huh?’ Alby asked. ‘A dead what?’

Minho smiled. ‘A dead Griever.’” (Dashner 84)

Wow! Who it is possible that a Griever is dead? I did not imagine that they just die or that they kill each other. Does this means that grievers will just start dyeing? Because if they do it will be easier for Gladers to discover the way out of the maze.

“Their faces showed complete awe, as if they were watching two ghosts strolling through a graveyard. Thomas knew it was because they’d accomplished something never done before, but he was embarrassed by the attention” (Dashner 144)

It will be awesome to been observed with fear or like you are something strange, because you had accomplished something that no one had done before. When I read this, I liked that Thomas was being the center of attention but I was confused because I thought that people would be happy with Thomas and will see him as a hero. I do not know why they have fear of him.

Final Ideas and Conclusions

The chapters that I had read for this week had being pretty excited. The part where I could not stop reading was when Thomas was trapped inside the maze with the grievers. This book is getting better as I keep on reading. I have many predictions of what happened next in the book could but I am sure that I will be wrong because this book is unpredictable. Everything could happened. I really like this book and I want to continue reading.

A Great Summer

Summary

This summer I had to read and blog about The Maze Runner by James Dashner. This story started when a teen named Thomas arrived to an estrange place, he only remember his name. This strange place was called the Glade; it was a big courtyard surrounded by big walls that had four Stone doors, in the other side of the walls there was an enormous maze. There were many people in the glade, only man and they only knew their names, Alby and Newt were in charge and Chuck become Thomas´ best friend. The next day from his arrival Alby explained Thomas how everything worked in the Glade and the dangers that existed, he showed Thomas a mix of animal and machine creature the size of a cow with a saw blade, rods and a set of shears. In the middle of the trip something strange happened, someone new arrive to the Glade, it was a girl, she arrived just the next day that Thomas did, and she carried a massage: “She´s the last one. Ever.” (Dashner 57). In the afternoon Thomas decided to explore and a person who he had seen sick the last day attack him, for his luck Alby helped him.

Interesting Thought Throughout The Book

“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches.” (Dashner 20).

I cannot imagine being in Thomas place, to fell alone, to have no answers, to be scared and now he sees a sick person and imagining what could happened to him. If I see a person like that, I will not sleep for days in a place like that. I do not know how Thomas could had the guts to sleep that firs night.

“‘He is not one of us!’ Ben Shouted. ‘I saw him-he´s…he’s bad. We have to kill him! Let me gut him!’” (Dashner 72)

When Ben shouts this to Alby trying to kill Thomas, I was surprises: How is it possible that the man who was sick in bed the last day can be recovered? And a man that have no memories at all can say that Thomas is a bad guy? I really like this secrets and suspense that the author is adding; it makes me wanting to read more and more.

Final Ideas and Conclusions

I am definitely going to have a great summer reading this book. I have to admit that I has a hard time at the beginning of this book understanding the characters but when I figure it out, I found this story interesting and addicting. After reading a bunch of books that had not being good this is finally a great beginning of story. I really like the suspense that the story has explanations that are not at the beginning so that the audience can make predictions. I am sure that this next part of the story will not him long because of the interesting the story is.

Nice Ending. Great Author

Summary

In this week’s reading, Damian Cray and Yassen Gregorovich take Alex and Sabina to the airport to complete the Eagle strike, which Alex did not know what it was. When they arrive into the airport, they find the United States president´s plane. Damian enter with some of his guard enter this gigantic plane and take it. In side Damian, complete the eagle strike by launching the USA nuclear missiles. Alex and Damian start to fight and Damian trip and fall of the plane in move and he ended his days in the plane turbine. The plane start to stop and the police arrive and when the missiles were about to return from the atmosphere he press the button Self Destruct and he save millions of people. At the end Yassen, tell Alex that his dad was a killer and they used to work together killing for money.

Interesting Thoughts though out the Book

“Strange though it may seem, I am now in control of just about all the nuclear missiles in the United States. Isn´t that fun?” (Horowitz 225)

When I first read this quote, I understood why the hard drive was so important and the amount of power this man have. By telling, that he is control of all the US missiles the reader can understands that the world is in danger and that Damian Cray is crazy.

“Not a spy, no, Alex. He was a killer. Like me. He was the very best. The best in the world. I knew him when I was nineteen. He taught me many things.”(Horowitz 247).

Whoa. I cannot believe that a spy father can be a killer. Maybe the author is trying to show how can a kid change and not be a bad person but instead be a better one.

Final Ideas and Conclusions

This story was really good, I like it a lot. I will recommend this book to everybody who like spy stuff and suspense. I really like this author: Horowitz because the two books I have read from him have being really good. My rating to this book is a 4 out of 5 stars because it was good but not awesome.

From Good To Awesome

Summary

For this week reading the book is getting better than before, and my prediction was right: Alex didn’t died he was acting to escape. Before anybody him he entered Damian Cry´s room and stole the hard drive of his computer where all the information o his plan was. Before anybody notice him, he escaped and was searched in all the city by Yassen people. They didn’t find him so they decide to use a plan B. They kidnapped Alex´s friend called Sabina and thread to kill her if he didn’t gave the hard drive back, He had to give the hard drive to Cry.

Interesting Thought Through Out The Book

“He was bruised, filthy, and lucky to be alive. He just wondered how he was going to explain all this to Jack.”(Horowitz 112).

The author shows Alex´s lucky he had in the escape from Yassen agents to make the reader see that Alex is not invincible just because is the primary character. This makes easier for the reader to understand that everybody needs help and luck.

Yassen opened the scissors. Sabina had suddenly gone very quiet and still. Her eyes pleaded with Alex” (Horowitz 195).

In this quote Yassen is threading Alex with cutting off a finger to Sabina but why do they do that? Don’t they had a conscience of common sense? I don’t know why this people are so crazy.

Final Ideas And Conclusions

This reading was pretty exciting and interesting. I read this pages really fast and didn’t notice all the time I had spent reading it because of the good the story was. I don’t think Cry will stay with the hard drive because Alex is too clever and smart to lose it. I can’t wait to see what will happened next and if Damian Cray´s plan will succeed.

This Can Not Be

Summary

For this week reading Alex decided to follow a track he had that will lead him to Damian Cray to see if he was guilty or if he wasn’t. Alex travel to Paris where he joined with Marc Antonio, a painter, who had information about where Damian Cray was, they heard gunshots and they run. Marc Antonio didn’t survive just Alex. Alex used marc´s info to enter a big building where he found Yassen Gregorovich and Damian Cray. When Damian Discovered Alex he put him in a real life version of the game Alex played in the game launch. Alex completed four of the five stages of the game when he suddenly was found dead, covered with blood by the guards.

Interestin Thoughts Through Out The Book

“Marc Antonio Was Death but he had given Alex another piece of the puzzle.”(Horowitz 112)

When I read this I thought about other book that Horowitz had written were a person who helps the principal character is killed. I think that this two book have more than this connection and the author is doing this on purpose. I think is an interesting connection that I have found and is from the same author.

“More blood trickled out of his mouth. His eyes closed and he pitched to one side. He didn’t move again” (Horowitz 150).

This quote was when Alex was entering the fifth stage. I can’t belie that the author had killed the main character. I don’t think Alex is death because I am still half the way through the book and the book can’t stay without a principal character.

Final Ideas And Conclusions

This book is getting even better than before with each mystery that the author add. This story is a page turner because I don’t want to stop reading. I don’t think that the author is killing Alex. I want to know if he is just acting or if he is death.

Secret Agency

Summary

For this week reading Alex return to England were we told everything what had happened to his secret agency he worked in The MI6. The suspicion he had was about a millionaire singer who was called Damian Cray. Alex was not supported my MI6 so he decided to go and search for him in his own. He found him in a game launch event that was about war but the interesting thing was that Cray didn’t like violence or anything that damage the planet.

 Interesting Thoughts Through Out the Book

“´Don’t worry, ´ Alex said. ´The royal and General Bank doesn´t exist. That´s just the sign they put on the doors.’”(Horowitz 60)

In this quote the MI6 is hiding their headquarters while making it look like a bank. The author is trying to make the story interesting and realistic by adding this sign. This sign is the simplest and most useful protection a secret base can have and the author is using it just as it has to be.

 “´Absolutely not.´ Blunt picked up the pieces of paper and crumpled it. ´The less Alex Rider Knows about Yassen Gregorovich, the better.´”(Horowitz 75)

In this quote I can see that the MI6 is hiding things from Alex and the author wants to crate suspense by not telling us what it is. I really like the way that the author is creating suspense in a lot of parts of the book just to keep you in reading it.

 Final Ideas And Conclusions

This reading was like the first one: Excellent. I really like how the story is design and all the mystery there is around Alex Rider. I think that maybe Damian Cray is the one who planned the attack in France and soon Alex will discover it. This book is much better than the one before and I think that it will continue this way until I finish with it.